[FIX?][ENH?][GOODIE?] CachedFonts/TextStyles/WYSIWYG menus/Musings

Doug Way dway at mat.net
Fri Oct 29 06:40:05 UTC 1999


On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Robin Gibson wrote:

> agree at carltonfields.com wrote:
> > > Your screenshot with all the fonts is
> > > probably worth adding to the screenshots page, too.
> > 
> > I don't disagree with any of these sentiments, I think this is all
> great stuff.  But as the token lawyer among us, I need to say the
> seriously unfun thing:  Do we have the rights to those fonts?  Under
> the Squeak license, certain Apple-owned fonts were within the scope of
> the license -- are these they?  Are the new strikefonts unauthorized
> derivative works?
> 
> Probably. They are up for demonstration purposes right now, but can
> easily be replaced by either the Apple owned fonts you mentioned or
> public domain fonts.

I'll hold off on adding the Swiki links, then.

The screenshot would probably be okay on the Swiki, though, as a
demonstration of what you can do with different fonts.

(I'm guessing the fonts were from that Microsoft site?  It looked like
those were freely distributable for personal use, but not for use as part
of a commercial product.)

Anyway, it would be nice to find some more truly free fonts which looked
decent as Strikefonts.  There are lots of free font sites on the web (e.g.
http://www.freesources.com/fonts.shtml), but they tend to be wackier fonts
more suited for large type, and they don't usually have hinting.

Probably the best bet would be to find some free fonts which were already
bitmaps... seems more likely than finding free fonts with hinting.

(And of course getting TrueType support working would be cool, but that
may be further down the road...)

- Doug Way
  dway at mat.net





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